Apple Manual: dream zone

CREDITS

DREAM ZONE is an original creation conceived, designed, and created by
JAM, Software

Plot and Game design by: Andy "believe me.., I can do it" Gavin and Jason
"not gettin' paid enuf" Rubin

Programming by: Andy Gavin

Graphics and Art by: Jason Rubin

Music driver by: Audio Light, S 1986 Audio Light Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Songs and Music by: Sarah "super-sound" Sidman with Andy and Jason
Documentation by: Andy and Jason
Published by: Baudville, Inc.

Thanks to Michael "answer-man" Darooge for technical help, Bill "money-bags"
Darooge, and Debbie "dead-line" Goddard. and all the other wonderful lifeforms at
Baudville.

Thanks to Danny "nice try" Schwarz for his ideas and musical abilities.

Thanks to play testers: Greg Roggin, Canaan "the brother" Rubin, Spenrock

Ezekual Joshua Jerusalem Stone (Zeke), Mitch "I want to be the brother" Gavin,
Peter "this is my game"' Steinberg, Danny Steinberg. Brain "where are the
pictures" Walsh, and the elusive Alex "BC" Whatever.

Most of all thanks to Peter Gabriel for the music that gave Andy the patience to
write c. 200K of code.

Remember, this has been an Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin production, "we do it all
for you."

By the way look for our next game, in the works or in the stores as you read this.
Dedicated to the found memory of Chelsea.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

© 1987 JASON RUBIN and ANDY GAVIN. All Rights Reserved.

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Adventure Guide

DREAM

By: Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
INTRODUCTION

It happened again last might. The sweating, the tossing, the turning. Crying out in
the night and then suddenly waking with nothing to remind you of what had terrorized
you, bul the exhausted feeding you experience all day. Something has to be done. But
what?

In the morning you go downstairs to the kitchen and greet your parents who give you
that now familiar helpless Hook, and your brother, who complains about your ruining his
sleep. You sit down to a cold bowl of oatmeal and answer the same barrage of
questions you get every rmorning: "Yes. it happened again; yes, it was the same type
of thing; no, I don't know what it is; no, I haven't eaten Chinese food with a lot of MSG
lately""

Then something happems to make you believe in miracles. The newspaper falls off
the table and flies apart ion its way to the floor. Your eyes are drawn to a small
unobtrusive classified ad lin the middle of the page:

PS YCHOMENTAL HELP - Call 555-5362 - Dr. Sigmund Fraud, DPM, DIP. MDF, MIT,
CIA. IBM, IT. AD. and FJDW. Anyone helped - low rates - 24 HRS. Parking in the Rear!

Thai night you sneak oiut your window, shinny down an oak tree, and head for the
address the lady on the phione gave you. You find yourself in the front of a dilapidated
building in a desolate psart of town. A sign says "DR. FRAUD-KNOCK TWICE.
NEUROTICS MAY JUST ENTER." The heavy creaky wooden door opens to reveal
a lady whose voice you rrecognize from the phone. She greets you in the same
baritone, "Down sit. busy lis the doctor, soon be with you he will."

You have some second! thoughts when the doctor finally appears. Dr. Fraud looks
like his name with bleached "Einstein" hair growing wildly around his tanned dry face.
He is wearing a multicolored Hawaiian shirt and a giant chain around his neck clinks
in your face as he leans ower and asks, "Vat ist de problem?" As you begin to explain,
the doctor, seemingly unirnterested, starts playing with a giant console of some sort.
When you finish, he nods and whispers "Ist to be kviat please. I tinkin." He folds himself
into a tight bundle in an arrmehair. After an eternity, he unfolds himself and explains.
"Vile jours is not ein eazy c;aze, I can do zomezing for jou.. .Cost negligible !" You agree,
realizing this may be your only hope of a full nights sleep again.

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He returns to the console and picks up a bundle of little wires with suction cups at
the ends. Slowly he attaches the cups to almost every part of your anatomy. "Now ve
solve problem, cloze de eyez und tink nice tings." He dims the lights and flips some
switches. You feel power surge from one end of your body to the other as you lie
paralyzed. "Drink zis," he finally says and hands you a glass of strange liquid as you
open your eyes. "Jou go home," he explains, "Tomorrow, ven jou go to zteep. jou
dreem. And if jou not get out of jour dream, jou no vake up,"

Dr. Fraud tells you there is a beast in your mind, a monster who possesses no power
by day. but rules your thoughts at night. You must kill the beast or your nights will
continue sleepless. The beast will do everything in its power to win. It will throw your
worst fears back at you and play with your mind. You have only one advantage over
the beast: it likes games and will play with you. The people it puts in your way are not
necessarily good or bad, but all worth talking to. It won't send you to places that have
no purpose and won't make it impossible to succeed -just hard.

All the next day, you worry about the coming night Visions of horror movies and
ghost stones haunt you. Will these be what you see tonight? Will you have the strength
to survive?

Finally , it's time to go to sleep. You stumble up the stairs to the upper hall. Will this
be the last time you see these familiar sights? You open the door to your room and
prepare to enter the DREAM ZONE . . .

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Apple llGS with 51 2K RAM. mouse, and one or two 3.5" disk drives.
STARTING UP

To start DREAM ZONE, place the disk labled "PROGRAM DISK A" in drive 1 . If you
have two drives, insert the disk labled "DATA DISK B" in drive 2. Then turn on the
computer. After a few moments, you will be greeted by the DREAM ZONE title page
and theme song. Click the mouse button or press a key to conttn-ue with the game.
If you only have one drive, you will be prompted to insert "DATA DISK B" at this point.

DREAM ZONE is filled with people, places, things, and other assorted goodies.
Some things can be picked up and moved, some can be used, people can be talked
to, and everything can be examined. Like real life, your actions add up to your current
situation. If you eat the sandwich it is eaten, gone, finished. But fortunately unlike real
life you can start over when you mess up.

USING THE MOUSE

The game is played by typing plain English commands, or by using the mouse to
select screen objects and action icons. Most of the game can be played using only the
mouse. Typing is sometimes required for special commands and words. When you
move the mouse, a small arrow or pointer will follow on the screen.

Click means press and quickly release the mouse button. To select something on
the screen, move the pointer to that item and click,

Double-Click means click the mouse button twice in rapid succession. Double-
clicking is used to select an item for some special or alternate action.

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THE DREAM ZONE SCREEN

Load Save Edit Options

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MENU BAR

CONTROL PAD

DISPLAY LINE

DESCRIPTION WINDiOW

COMMAND LINE

Each area off the DREAM ZONE game screen h has a special function. Clicking the
mouse in these areas will allow you to move quiuickly through the varioius locations,
conversing with people (and things), and picking u up useful items along tine way. If you
read through the instructions, you will find many s special features {and perhaps even
a few clues) to help ycu through the DREAM ZODNE.

The Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top of the screen provides a access to several pull-down menus.
Each word on tine menu bar is the title of a different menu. To pull down a menu , move
the pointer to the desired menu title and hold dowwn the mouse button, The menu will
appear and remain visible until you release the moouse button. To choose a command
from a pull-down menu, point to the menu title, hoold down the mouse button, drag the
mouse pointer down the list until the desired commmand is highlighted, then release the
button. The command will flash briefly to indicatEte that it has been selected.

At the left end of the menu bar is an symbol \l which marks the Apple menu. This
menu contains the ' About Dream Zone" eommaand which displays a dialog box with
the current program version number. When a i dialog box appears, click "OK" or
"Cancel" to close the box and continue.

Next to the Apple menu are the Load and Save/e menus. You can save the current
game in progress with the Save menu (up to 10 d different games can be saved). Use
the Load menu to restore the saved game. It is a a good idea to save your game when-
ever danger is lurking. You never know when youiur dream adventure may be cut short
by an unfortunate accident.

The Edit menu has Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, andid Clear commands for -editing text
you have typed in the command line at the bottoom of the screen.

The Options menu has several special program n options:

1 ) The Color Text command will switch between) n color or black text in the
description window,

2) The Visible Objects command will make movweable items visible or invisible.
When this option is checked, the objects appeear as pictorial icons in the picture
area. If you seek a greater challenge, make tl them invisible.

3) The Special Inventory command will move ycyour inventory display from the
icon bar to the description window so they caran be accessed more easily.

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4) The Music On command will turn the music on and off.

5) The New Game command will restart the game at the beginning. A dialog box
will warn that you will lose the current game. If you do not wish this, then select
cancel and save your game.

6) The Quit command will end the game and exit to ProDOS or a previous
application.

Most of the commands in the menu bar can be selected using special key combin-
ations instead of pulling down the menu with the mouse. These shortcut commands
are selected by pressing the [ J key and a letter key simultaneously. The available
shortcut commands are indicated by an apple symbol and a letter listed next to the
menu item.

The Picture Area

This area of the screen displays a panoramic view of your current location in the
DREAM ZONE. At the beginning of the game it shows the inside of your bedroom.
Often there are people or things of special interest in the picture area. Clicking one of
these objects will type the name of the object in the command line (just as if you had
typed the name). Double clicking the object will give a detailed description. Moveable
objects will appear in as small tile icons in the picture area. Up to twelve objects can
be in a location at one time. Clicking an object tile will type the object's name into the
command line. Double-clicking will pick up the object and place it into your inventory.

The Control Pad

To the right of the picture area is the control pad. The control pad buttons are
marked: Up, Down, North. South. East, and West, These buttons will move you from
one location to another without distubing text on the command line. The unmarked
button in the center is the Enter button used to enter a room or building. Double clicking
the Enter button will cause you to Exit the current location,

You can also move by typing "GO NORTH" or " NORTH" or just the first letter of the
direction (U, D, N, S, E, W) on the command line. Occasionally you will have to use
"ENTER" or another command to move to a desired location.

The Display Line

Just below the picture is a display line made up of three sections. The center section
is a short description of the room or location you are in. Clicking this description will
give a more detailed description.

The far right side of the display line is the view box that tells you what direction you
are facing. When the view box says "NORTH VIEW", it means you are facing north
looking at the picture area. Clicking on the view box will insert the word "ABOUT" into
the command line. While this may seem strange at first, you will find this word used
frequently.

If any people or characters are accompanying you on your journey, their names will
appear at the far left section on the display line. Clicking one of these names will type
the name into the command line. Double-clicking inserts 'TALK TO name " into the
command line

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The Icon Bar

The icon bar contains the inventory button (i) and easy-access buttons tor often
used action words. Clicking an action icon will put that word in the command line;
double-clicking an action icon will insert an alternate word:

Click

Double-Click

Look

Look Around

Get

Get All

Drop

Drop All

Talk To

Say

Give

Show

Use

Wear

Buy

Steal

Hit

Kill

Open

Eat

Inventory is different from the other icons. If you click the inventory button, the
objects you are carrying will appear on top of the action word icons. Clicking one of
these possessions will insert the word in the command line. Instead if typing "GET
PAJAMAS", you can simply click the GET icon and then click the PAJAMAS icon
(assuming you see it on the screen). Click the inventory button again to restore the
action word icons. Double-clicking (i) types the word "INVENTORY" and lists your
possessions in the description area. Select the Special Inventory command in the
Options menu to move the inventory icons down so they don't cover the action word
icons.

The Description Window

This window displays all the messages you will encounter, from detailed descrip-
tions to conversation to death notices. The text is color-coded depending on the
message type. For example, blue text is description, light-blue is conversation, pink
means you can't move in that direction, and red means something very serious is
happening.

Note: Clicking in the description window is the same as pressing (Return],

The Command Line

This is where you enter commands. Any combination of typing, clicking, and editing
can be used to create a phrase or sentence that will be used for a command. When
you press [Return) or click in the description window, the command is processed. A
parser will read your command, think about it, and then take appropriate action. The
command should start with a verb. The action words on the icon bar will do just fine
in most situations, but sometimes you will have to try a different word. The parser will
let you know if it doesn't understand, and will try to help if it understands only part of
a command.

Bad spelling is tolerated as long as you get the first four letters right and put spaces
between words. The parser Is also good about extra words. If you want to examine
the bed, "LOOK AT THE BED" and "LOOK BED" will give the same result. Just
remember to press [Return] or click the description window to send the command to
the parser.

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HELPFUL TIPS

There are clues everywhere to help on your journey through the DREAM ZONE.
Examine every new location carefully and talk to the people you meet. If a situation
looks threatening, save your game before taking an uncertain action.

Conversations

People are one of the most important elements in the game. Looking at people will
merely give a physical description of them. Talking to them will usually be more helpful .
The "SAY" command is verbal proclamation. If you type SAY 'HELLO" then you are
saying out loud, "HELLO." This is not appropriate for conversation where information
is needed. On the other hand, if you want to tell someone that you are ready, then SAY
'READY' is a good choice, When you use the "SAY" command, use single quotes
around the word or phrase you are saying.

Use the "TALK TO" command to start up a conversation, People usually will re-
spond with some greeting or clue. You can "ASK someone ABOUT something" or
"TALK TO someone ABOUT something" to get more specific information . You can also
"ASK ABOUT something" without talking to anyone in particular; there may be a
response from an unseen source.

Action Commands

It is possible to carry up to nine objects in your inventory. When an object is plainly
visible in the picture, you can double-click it or use the "GET" command to pick it up.
Often you will have to do more than just "GET" an object you need; you may have to
buy, swap, bribe, or even steal it! The "DROP" command will drop an inventory item
at the location.

The "GIVE" and "SHOW" commands are similar and often interchangeable. If you
want to bribe someone, use "GIVE THE MONEY TO someone'' or "GIVE someone
THE MONEY". When someone hints that they want something you have (or can get)
you will probably do well to give it to them.

The "USE" command is very versatile. For example, "BRUSH TEETH" and "USE
TOOTHBRUSH" are the same. On the other hand some things like "USE MONEY" or
"USE THE GUN" are too general. Instead use more specific directed actions like
"SHOOT THIEF" or "HIT THE BUM."

Words like "WITH" and "ABOUT" may be needed in some commands. "OPEN
DRESSER" will work if the dresser is unlocked, whereas "OPEN DOOR WITH KEY"
might be required on a locked door. Commands like "SWAP" and "REPLACE" require
two specific objects. In this case you would "SWAP something WITH something."

A few words like "HELP" "DIG" and "JUMP" can be single word commands. The
"JUMP" command by itself will jump you straight up, while "JUMP WEST" will jump you
in a direction.

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